The Gathering Night

THE GATHERING NIGHT is a story of conflict, loss, love, adventure and devastating natural disasters. This utterly enchanting pre-historical novel is set deep in our stone-age past, but resonates as a parable of our troubled planet eight thousand years on.


“A superbly gripping blend of murder and revenge, which sweeps along with the inexorability of Greek drama.” —Globe and Mail (A Globe & Mail Top 100 Book)


“a meticulously detailed re-enactment of what life may well have been like in Mesolithic Scotland.” —The Sunday Herald


“the most telling achievement of The Gathering Night is that it persuades us to accept its entirely different value-system without a qualm, and even to regret that humanity ever thought of swapping the hunter’s spear for the tiller’s spade.” —The Guardian